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The elderly do not matter in the UK

Posted under General/Current by Wendy on May 14th, 2008 6:17 pm

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Yet another elderly couple in the UK have committed suicide together.  They are one more example of the British Govt’s total lack of care or consideration for it’s elderly population. People who have stayed married for over fifty years, paid their taxes, raised their families and never put their hands out for one cent of welfare…and yet they are treated in their twilight years as thought they are dirt. They have no feelings, they are no longer productive, they might forget to vote, they are sick…they are easily dispensible.

In the UK the only people who matter anymore are the dregs of society; people who refuse to work - sponging unmarried women whose only aim in life is to produce litters of kids by as many different men as possible - suspected terrorists - violence spouting Muslim Clerics - criminals and violent feral youths. These people all have ‘human rights’ that are well protected by the European courts, these people ‘matter’ to the Govt…but the elderly?

Social workers think nothing of separating couples who have been married for decades, putting the wife in one ‘care’ home and the husband in another.  They pay no heed at all to their feelings, they care not one bit about cutting in half a couple who have never left each other’s side ‘for better or for worse’  - ‘in sickness and in health’.

No wonder elderly couples are killing themselves rather be subject to the British version of  ’care of the elderly’.

In 60 years Tom and Nancie Hughes had never been apart. But Social Workers decided that it was time to split them up as Nancie had dementia and needed care in a facility, but made no effort to keep the couple together. Nancie was to go to one home and Tom to another. The couple, who always held hands when they went anywhere, could not bear this last unbearable injustice. They decided that no-one would separate them. No Govt, no Social Workers, no laws…

They were found dead this week in their bedroom, beside each other. Together. As they had always been. And now, always will be.

In the United Kingdom today the elderly have seen their life-long pension savings systematically attacked and ransacked by the Blair-Brown Labour Govt; they are denied privacy and dignity in hospital; they are abused, neglected and malnourished in so-called ‘care homes’.  And just when an elderly couple need each other the very most, society tears them apart.

The standard of care, and attitudes, towards the elderly population in the United Kingdom in 2008 is quite simply atrocious.

Tom and Nancie Hughes. Preferred to die together rather than live apart.

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Too much information Cherie Blaaahh!

Posted under General/Current by Wendy on May 12th, 2008 5:34 pm

Yuk. How would you like to read in the papers all about how your parents conceived you…worst still how would you like your friends to read all the gory details!

Cherie Blair, wife of the former British PM Tony, has penned her auto-bio and has treated (?) the public in general to the behind the scenes story of how they created youngest child Leo back in 1999. They were staying at Balmoral Castle as a guest of the Queen and Cherie did not pack her ‘protection’. What follows is sure to make any teen puke as I am sure their older kids will be doing tonight.

She did not pack her Pilly’s as she was embarrassed that a royal aide would unpack her suitcase and find them so she left them at home at Number 10. Shock horror -the PM’s wife is on the Pill!!

One thing cher Cherie forgot; the Royal aides change the sheets each morning…

The Blairs at Balmoral 1999: the day after the night before - obviously

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More tragedy for the people of Myanmar

Posted under Blogging, General/Current by Wendy on May 10th, 2008 7:20 am

A few months ago the world watched as protestors in Myanmar were arrested and even shot for daring to speak out and demonstrate against the military regime ruling that small country. The fact that many of those protestors were monks made the situation even more unbelievable.

Now the country ahs been hit once again by tragedy; a devastating cyclone has destroyed a large part of the southern region of Myanmar in the past week with the death toll alone reaching 100,000. Those injured and missing will most likely cause that toll to rise as more information comes to light.

What these people need is emergency aid; food, medical supplies and shelter - easy enough to organise however the Govt there are refusing to allow any aid from the West in. They don’t want Americans coming into the country.

As the world contributes to fund this aid for these stricken people the situation is becoming more frustrating by the day with the people of Myanmar wondering why the rest of the world has failed to come to their rescue. I wish there was a way to let those people know that the world is ready and waiting to come and help them. As I write this the first trucks and planes from nearby Thailand are arriving over the border - but this is a mere trickle.

One has to wonder what will happen to these emergency supplies once they arrive in Myanmar and if they will ever reach those people who need them - I think we all just need to keep donating what we can - and keep our fingers crossed that it makes one hell of a difference.

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